This weekend, Israeli security forces engaged in a bloody crackdown on unarmed protesters. May 17, 2011 | 972 Magazine | Alternet Photo Credit: Joseph Dana Demonstrations marking the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba – the anniversary of Palestinians’ displacement in 1948 – were held throughout the West Bank, Gaza and inside Israel this week. The focal point of […]

Published today (updated) 17/05/2011 21:52 SALFIT (Ma’an) — Israeli forces declared an area in Salfit a closed military zone. Local official Nathmi Salman Deir Estaya said soldiers deployed and evacuated farmers. The soldiers in Wadi Qana refused to show documents explaining the ban, he said. Source

Tue May 17, 2011 5:11PM Palestinians chant slogans during a protest to mark Nakba Day near Erez crossing. An Israeli soldier has deliberately shot Palestinian photographer Mohammad Othman as he was covering protests in the Gaza Strip, says Reporters Without Borders. The group said on Tuesday that Othman was clearly identifiable as a journalist at […]

codepinkaction on May 17, 2011 Stemming from the conviction that it is time to advance a new US Policy towards the Israeli Palestinian conflict that is based on genuine justice and security for both Israelis and Palestinians, on May 16, 2011, ‘DC Riders for Peace’ launched an advertisement campaign urging an end to U.S. military […]

17 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement The school of the illegal settlement Kiryat Arba and the house which was attacked A Palestinian house was attacked by settlers from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba in Western Hebron on May 15, the Nakba day.Jamal Abu Saifan told the International Solidarity Movement that around 6.30 pm […]

By: Sara Kershnar, Mich Levy, and Jesse Benjamin | International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network The goal of this JNF eBook is to show how Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid are served by and depend on the environmental racism and destructiveness of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The struggle for home, land and justice by Palestinians is […]

Jews for Justice for Palestinians | May 17, 2011 Challenging AIPAC’s Abuse of Taxpayers Money By Omar Barghouti The Arab democratic spring, striving to end authoritarian rule and establish freedoms and social justice, has not been welcome by all. Israel and its main lobby in the U.S., the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), for […]

PalestineSolidarity on May 17, 2011 Video of Nakba demonstrations on May 15, 2011, in the West Bank village of Beit Ommar and nearby refugee camp of Aroub. The ‘Nakba’ (literally, ‘catastrophe,’) is recognized every year on May 15th, to commemorate the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Read more at http://www.palestinesolidarityproject.org Source: Palestine Video Related Special […]

17 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On 14 May 2011, the ISM went to Silwan, East Jerusalem after hearing about the tragic death of Milad Ayyash, a Palestinian teenager, who was killed during the Friday demonstrations against the Occupation in Batten Al Hawwa. Milad Ayyash was pronounced dead in the early hours of May […]

17.05.11 – 18:15 | Palestine News Network Bethlehem/Gaza – PNN – Israeli troops arrested on Tuesday 11 Palestinian civilians during raids targeting West Bank communities. Six of those arrested were taken from the village of al-Khader, near Bethlehem in southern West Bank. Israeli troops invaded the village and searched homes, later soldiers arrested Ma’mon Issa, […]

PNN – Palestine News Network | 17.05.11 – 18:34 Bethlehem – PNN – Israeli sources reported on Tuesday that Anastasia Michaeli, from the right wing Israel Betanu party submitted a bill of a law that forbids using loudspeakers to call for the prayers in mosques in Israel. The proposed bill will make it illegal to […]

May 17, 2011 | Counterpunch Standing for Justice By JOHNNY BARBER Every time I hear American journalists use words like “storming”, “rioting”, “infiltrating” and “terror, terrorism and terrorist” in describing Palestinian protesters marching with flags, or youth throwing stones at tanks, APC’s, and soldiers armed with American weapons, I vow to support those who march […]

Moe Ali Nayel | The Electronic Intifada | Beirut |17 May 2011 Demonstrators carry a fallen comrade during a march on the Lebanese border with Israel, 15 May 2011. (Hassan Bahsoun/Newscom) I grew up in Lebanon during the civil war and the Israeli occupation of the south. During that time a revolutionary song by Julia Butros, “Wayn […]

Updated Report by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, May 16, 2011 Email this article to a friend Print this article 3digg 451Share The Spirit of Rachel Corrie (officially known as FINCH) carrying a humanitarian cargo to Gaza was attacked by an Israeli naval patrol within the so-called Palestinian Security Zone on May 15, at 10.54pm […]

Published on Tuesday 17 May 2011 | Reporters Without Borders Palestinian news photographer Mohammed Othman was badly injured by a shot fired by an Israeli soldier while covering clashes between young Palestinians and Israeli troops at the Beit Hanoun (Erez) border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel on 15 May, the anniversary of Israel’s […]